Transport Your Private Content Through Content Network Storage
Using the Transport option, you can move content privately and share it with other
systems through Cloud.
Who does this apply to?
- Users with Read, Maintain, and
Share permissions for
Lifecycle.
- Users with Manage permissions for Public
Files and Workspace.
- Admin and BI Admin standard
application roles.
About Transporting Using the Content Network
To receive the content, the destination systems must have settings that allow imports
from your system. For details, see
Get Business Content and Samples from the Content Network.
Note
The source
and destination systems need to be on the same quarterly version of SAP
Analytics Cloud, or the following quarterly version. If the importing system is
on an older version, the package won’t appear. If it’s two or more versions
ahead of the exporting system, the package’s content may not be
supported.
In Transport, you can share content across systems from one or
more landscapes and set access rights for each sharing destination, for example, to
allow other systems to update a package and export it again.
Each system can store up to 300 MB of exported content for free in the My Content
area.
Note
Transporting content is not allowed between SAP Analytics Cloud tenants that are
based on:
You can also share content across systems using local files. See Transport Your Private Content Through File System for details. Note that exporting
and importing workspaces and workspace content is not supported using local file
transport.
Tip
If your export contains many objects, you may want to organize the
content so that it's easier to find:
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Save the objects in the same folder.
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Or, include the same keyword in the name of each object so that you can
search for it.
Exporting Content
You can follow the steps below to export a package that is shared with
you.
Procedure
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From the side navigation, choose .
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Under the tab Content Network Storage, select
My Content folder.
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A list of packages and folders appear, including the packages that you have
exported and the packages from other systems that you have permission to
edit or delete.
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Select the name of a package to get an overview of it.
- To edit the contents or details of a package and export it again,
select the checkbox next to it and select
(Edit). If you need to change the
content, set the Modify Content switch to
ON in the Choose
Content page. Otherwise, leave this switch off.
Then, follow the steps from Step 5.
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To create a new folder, select
(Create New Folder) and type a name and
description.
- To share a folder with its contents or to change the sharing
destinations for a package, select the checkbox next to it and
select
(Share). Follow the steps for setting
access rights in Step 8 (c).
- To delete folders or packages, select the checkboxes next to them
and choose
(Delete). The folder and its contents
will be removed from My Content folder and
will not be accessible to any system it was shared with. The
packages are removed from My Contentfolder
and can't be imported or edited from any system. However, each
system that imported the package will still have access to the
content itself, though.
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Select (New
Export).
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On the Choose Content page, pick the objects that
you want to include in your export.
Files from the Public and System folders are
available, as well as all workspaces and workspace content under
Workspace. You can also find
Team folders within the
System folder.
Note
- Private files saved in a user’s My Files folder aren’t available
for export.
- Workspace content can only be exported to and copied to new
tenant with the exact same folder structure.
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Use the main pane to navigate your folder structure and select
objects or folders.
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Some objects depend on others. For example, if you select a
model, its dimensions will also be selected.
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You can search for specific objects, or use the list of
Object Types to select or deselect
all of these object types.
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To deselect all objects, select the checkbox next to
Object Types and then deselect
it.
To show/hide the columns for the objects, expand (Show Columns) dropdown in the
toolbar. By default, columns such as Name,
Description, Type,
Data, Created On, and
Changed On are selected.
You can now select Owner and Changed
By columns to display the creator and last modified user
details of the object. Restore Defaults option
displays the default columns. You can show/hide columns while editing
the content of the existing package in the My
Content folder as well.
Selecting and deselecting the columns as per your needs allows you to
define the visibility of the object properties.
Note
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When you edit a package, the Changed
On details of the objects within the package
reflects the updated date and time as it pulls the
properties from the file repository. However, the object
content remains same as it was during the last export/update
time of the package.
To update the whole package, you must modify the content at
the package level. To do that, go to .
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You can search the objects through the values of
Name,
Description,
Type,
Owner, Changed
By columns. Also, sort the objects at column
level.
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By default, Data column is not pre-selected. You can manually
select the data checkbox to include the data of any object
as per your need.
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Selecting the Data checkbox in export
listing page adds the data of the parent object only. If you
want to include the data of dependent objects, you have to
manually select the data for each dependent objects.
To do that, click Selected Objects
option on the left pane and select
Data checkbox for the required
dependent objects.
When you've chosen your content, select Next.
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In the Set Package Properties page, type a
Name, Description, and
Details for the package. If your content has
terms and conditions, add them in the
Description.
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To export the package to a subfolder within My
Content, type the folder path in the
Location field, or select
Browse next to it. You can create a new
folder by selecting Browse and choosing
(Create New Folder).
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Use the Destinations section to choose the sharing
destinations for the export, and their level of permissions for the
content.
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Select to add a new
sharing destination.
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In the Destinations window, select the
category of the destination that you want to add:
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System: Select this option to add
individual systems, based on their URLs. Select a
Landscape, and copy the URLs
to the Systems list.
Note
Two types of data centers host
SAP Analytics Cloud systems: SAP data centers and non-SAP data centers.
You can share to systems that use the same type of data
center as yours. Systems hosted by SAP data centers use
one digit in their URL, like us1 or jp1. Non-SAP data
centers host systems that use two digits, such as eu10
or us30.
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Customer: Select this option to
add all systems that belong to one customer based on
their ERP ID. Type the ID in the
Customer field.
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OEM: This option shares to all
systems belonging to an OEM or partner, using their OEM
ID. Type the ID in the OEM
field.
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From the Permission dropdown, choose the
permissions that you want to grant to the sharing destination. You
can add more than one permission.
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View: Your package will appear in
the My Content folder for the
destination systems, and their users will be able to
view the name and summary.
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Import: The systems' users can
import the package from the My
Content folder.
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Edit: Your package will appear in
the My Content folder for the
destination systems, where users can make changes to the
package and export it again.
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Delete: From the My
Content folder, the systems' users can
delete the package.
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Select Add to add the destination.
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Add more destinations from the Access Rights
window as necessary. You can also edit permissions or remove
destinations from the Destinations
table.
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Select OK when the destinations are set
up.
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If you want users to accept terms and conditions before importing the
content, set the Terms and Conditions switch to
ON.
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Select Next to see an overview of your
package.
If there are any problems, select the warning icon () to see how to fix them.
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When everything looks good, select Export.
Results
You can check the progress of your export from the
Notifications list. You'll also receive a message
when it's complete, and you can check the Export Summary
to see the status of all the objects in the package.
When the export completes successfully, the package becomes available in the
My Content folder of the systems you chose. You can
edit the content, share it with other systems, or delete it from here.
Importing Content
You can follow the steps below to import a package that is shared with
you.
Procedure
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From the side navigation, choose .
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Under the tab Content Network Storage, select
My Content folder.
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Select the package that you wish to import.
An overview of the content appears. To get a quick summary of the import
settings and whether any existing content on your system will be
overwritten, take a look at the Import Overview
table.
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If you need to change any settings, select the Import
Options tab.
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Select an option for the Overwrite
Preferences.
If an object selected for import does not exist on your system, the
object will be created and its data will be imported. For objects that
already exist in your system, the
Overwrite
Preferences determine whether to update the object and
its data.
Note
If objects or data on your system will be overwritten by
the import, a warning appears in the import window, and next to the
relevant objects in the
Content list. If you
have made changes or enhancements to your sample content, follow the
instructions in the
Next Steps section to avoid losing
your work.
- Don’t overwrite objects or data:
This
setting prevents any existing objects in your system from being
overwritten or updated with new data. You are notified if any of the
objects selected for import already exist in your system.
For
example, you can choose this setting if you have replaced the data
in an imported model with your own data, and want to avoid
overwriting this data.
- Overwrite data only:
If you have made
changes to the structure of an imported model and want to avoid
losing those changes, choose this setting.
Data is imported
into each object, but the objects themselves are not
updated.
The Privacy and
Data Access Control settings for models,
as well as the permission settings for users and roles, remain
unchanged.
- Overwrite objects and data:
Objects on
your system can be overwritten and their data can be
updated.
For example, you may choose this option if you are
not using any of the content for business tasks.
Select
Including permissions to update the
Privacy and Data Access
Control settings for models and dimensions. The
corresponding permissions assigned to each role are also
updated.
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In the Import To field, navigate to the folder
within the Public folder, where you want to import
the package contents.
Note
- You can switch on the Override Folder Import
Location toggle if you want to choose the
import location of individual folders within the
Public folder. You cannot modify
the location of individual objects, such as stories or
models present directly in the Public
folder. For example, if you have imported some content into
My Files/Public/Folder A, you can
modify the location of individual folders in the package to
Folder B and not any objects present in the root location.
- You cannot override the folder import locations of workspace
content you are importing.
- If an imported object does not exist in the target, it is
imported to the location you have selected in the target
tenant and maintains same hierarchy as the source.
- If an imported object exists in the target, re-import
updates the object in the respective target location.
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In the Content list, choose which objects to import,
and whether to include the data for each imported dimension and model.
You can select and deselect individual objects, or types of objects (for
example, Models or
Stories).
The Impacted Content column shows warnings for
objects that will overwrite content on your system.
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After specifying the import location from the Import
To option, select Import.
The import process begins. You receive a notification when the process is
complete, or if an error occurs.
If you selected Don’t overwrite objects or data or
Overwrite data only, a notification will let
you know if any of the content wasn’t imported to avoid overwriting
existing content.
To view the log of updates and imports for a package, select the package
in the content network and choose
(History).
Results
Note
The user who imports the package becomes the owner of it. However, the user
must have read permissions on the relevant object types to access the package
content.